This Deprivation and Road Safety report for TFL’s London Road Safety Unit, by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, looks at the association between deprivation and road traffic injury in London. They claim to have found a strong deprivation relationship, in particular for adult cyclists and adult[…]
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Here’s a study from the Journal of Preventive Medicine looking at inequalities in registration for and use of ‘boris bikes’ in London. F. Ogilvie and A. Goodman found that those living in income-deprived areas in London were overall less likely to register for the bike scheme and that users were more likely[…]
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Birmingham is a city that frequently crops up when searching for mentions of deprivation – a large, dense city with many pockets of extreme poverty and disadvantage. Like many cities with significant levels of deprivation, local authority policy tends to be quite conscious of this. An interesting example I stumbled[…]
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